Views of the world from a tiny island

Her own worst enemy … and that’s saying something

Amazing as it may seem, Mirah Riben … rabid anti-adoption nut and casual acquaintance of the written word … continues to shoot herself in the foot in forums as public as she can manage to corner for flaunting her ignorance and narrow agenda that consists of sour grapes and disregard for the fate of children in the world.

I’m guessing the heavy investment in misery I mention in the comment to Lisa’s post linked above … specific instructions, you see, in case any of the oh-so-easily-confused cohorts of The Riben happen to drop by and again can’t figure out the whole click-to-link thing … has a lot to do with it. There would appear to be no little support, and in fact a great deal of it, for assuming a victim posture and sticking with it no matter how silly it looks.

I have a mental image of the meetings these folks must participate in … huge wallows, complete with enthusiastic bouts of flagellation meant to bring out impressive welts easily and eagerly shown off and compared, possible even with “my pain is bigger than your pain” contests taking up a portion of the schedule. Any healing would have to be frowned upon as a negation, and claims of adjustment to circumstances a repudiation, a denial.

The Riben’s writings might be garnering her pain points in whatever game she plays, and we do know she’s flogging a book or two … which I’m hoping she sends for review, as I’d be happy to do that, but do doubt she’d want a real critique of her ‘work’ from someone not married to her agenda … and it appears she may be trying to start a movement.

Her latest spewage calls for a boycott of Adoption.com, and though it looks like she finally found someone to proof her since some punctuation is appropriately used … thank goodness, as her writing is usually so poor that a headache is the only result of a reading — attempted reading, I should say … the information continues to be consistently, and most likely intentionally, incorrect and the references continue to lead back only to her own words on her own web sites.

Parents and Professionals for Family Preservation and Protection is opposed to the purpose of this site, its advertisers, and its practices and urges all who are truly interested in preserving families to boycott Adoption.com and its affiliates.

Sound impressive? Not really, and even less so when you know that “Parents and Professionals for Family Preservation and Protection” is Mirah Riben … probably on her lonesome, too. (Family Preservation is code for abolish adoption. Pretty tricky in a sad, pathetic sort of way, heh?)

People are asking why I continue to provide links to her, but how could I not? If I summarized, you’d think I was making her up. She’s her own worst enemy, poor thing, in all her embarrassing, convoluted and desperate glory, and far be it from me to deny anyone the experience of the full Mirah.

I’d link to her blog where she accuses me of being just like Paris Hilton, but I don’t want to divert attention from serious issues with comedy relief. Email me if you’d like the link, though — the whole post is hilarious.

Good for a laugh as she is, however, a pattern of tedium is forming. No matter how monotonous, she does keep drawing hits to my sites, though, so there’s milage in the sad old girl yet.

It is amazing that someone who thinks of herself as a writer is so darned bad at it, isn’t it? Even the basics seem so far beyond her.
She is good for a laugh, though. I’m guessing she was thinking I’d be so insulted by a comparision to Paris Hilton that I’d freeze with indignation. Ha!
No writing skills AND no sense of humor. Fatal combo, that, for someone counting on the written word to convey anything but idiocy.

Those anti-adoption fanatics are great for generating hundreds of hits a day, huh? Why bother hiring a publicist when you can sit back and watch their shrieking frenzy drive people in droves to your site?
I think there’s about half a dozen blogs where they’re bitching about my latest posts. How stupid are they to not realize that they are drawing people to OUR message?
Isn’t infamy wonderful?

Btw, love that image about those intense bouts of self-flaggelation and “my misery is bigger than YOUR misery”. Wish I thought of that imagery myself – now if only I could put it out of my mind! lol

I find this post a sad personal attack which makes it appear that you are somehow vulnerable and defensive regarding the message that Mirah’s books convey.

I don’t understand how anyone would even WANT to attack the idea of family preservation? Isn’t that the compassionate, logical, natural way of the world? Why does the term “anti-adoption” set off so many buttons anyway? Doesn’t make sense.